For the first time all week, we have totally clear skies at sunrise. My overnight low temp here on Tushita Road just below the mountaineering center is 57.6F (14.2C), which is the coolest I've recorded since last Friday morning.
But things will be warming up in a hurry. In fact, we should be in line for the warmest temperatures of the season over the coming weekend... allowing us to end March and begin the month of April a couple of degress above normal. Our atmosphere is stabilizing, as a massive ridge of high pressure starts to build across much of Pakistan and India. This will force the jetstream well to our north, and give temperatures a chance to warm up... all the way from the surface into the highest reaches of the atmosphere. You know the story... whenever we get a shift like this, we have to watch for a random shower over the mountains... but things should remain quiet for the most part for the next few days.
By Sunday night, the next set of weak disturbances aloft will start to edge into northern India, bringing a chance of some scattered showers or thundershowers early next week. But if this last system is any indication of what kind of rainfall we might get, then it doesn't look very hopeful...
But things will be warming up in a hurry. In fact, we should be in line for the warmest temperatures of the season over the coming weekend... allowing us to end March and begin the month of April a couple of degress above normal. Our atmosphere is stabilizing, as a massive ridge of high pressure starts to build across much of Pakistan and India. This will force the jetstream well to our north, and give temperatures a chance to warm up... all the way from the surface into the highest reaches of the atmosphere. You know the story... whenever we get a shift like this, we have to watch for a random shower over the mountains... but things should remain quiet for the most part for the next few days.
By Sunday night, the next set of weak disturbances aloft will start to edge into northern India, bringing a chance of some scattered showers or thundershowers early next week. But if this last system is any indication of what kind of rainfall we might get, then it doesn't look very hopeful...
THURSDAY:
sun and a few clouds. warming up.
high: 22C (71F)
THURSDAY NIGHT:
clear to partly cloudy.
low: 15C (59F)
FRIDAY:
mostly sunny and pleasantly warm.
high: 23C (73F)
SATURDAY:
plenty of sunshine. warmest of the year?
morning low: 16C (61F)
daytime high: 24C (75F)
SUNDAY:
becoming partly cloudy. warm... with a slight chance of a thundershower by evening.
morning low: 17C (62F)
daytime high: 24C (76F)
MONDAY:
a mix of clouds and sun. still warm, with a shower or thundershower possible.
morning low: 17C (63F)
daytime high: 24C (76F)
